Let's be war buddies...

[initiates]

Date & Time: 18th, beginning at 2100 hours, through to the 20th.
Location: All around Exsilium.
Characters: Everyone!
Summary: The United Earth decides Exsilium had obviously not learned its lesson back in October, and does another round of humble-making bombing for those impertinent exiles. OOC info can be found here.
Warnings: Violence, death, general gloom and doom.

The warning had gone out approximately two hours before the bombing began, broadcast to any available receptor on the island: UE aggressions incoming, bombs expected; please proceed to Catacombs immediately. It repeats over and over, right up until the first bomb, aimed at the Hold itself, silences the signal.

The air is thick with smoke and worse. Every one to two hours another bomb shakes the island. Buildings crumble and shatter, but the focus is on the Hold and the native hospital. Initiative employees, some sick as anyone else, are steadfast in their escorting natives and transports alike into the underground catacombs. For two days the bombs continue ceaselessly, dropped by their cloaked and invisible carriers overhead.

The United Earth is nothing if not thorough.

Comments

[terrot]

And I will always need you to.

[ even if not strictly true, she's gone years taking care of herself while he slept, though those first days here when she thought she was truly alone were the most frightening she can remember.

she needs him just as much as he needs her to. ]

[firstroar]

[it's almost soothing enough to mute the buzz of so many uneasy minds and hearts nearby, further in the catacombs. not enough to mute the rumble of planes, but Blue's got good reason to not waver.

leaning against the wall of that corridor, his hand clasps hers tighter as the ground shakes.]

[terrot]

[ she keeps her head low, her shoulder against his as her back clings to the wall. she can't help but wince every time they pass. the strikes must be very close. ]

How long can this continue?

[firstroar]

I don't know. I've never seen the scope of this enemy's power. It's all still isolated to the planet, and yet...

[terrot]

And yet we still have no chance against them. Not directly.